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In his most important work, Max Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of life, and what he considers its present reified domination. First published in 1947, Horkheimer here explores the ways in Nazism - that most irrational of political movements - had co-opted ideas of rationality for its own ends. Ultimately, the book is a warning of the ways this might happen again and, as such, this is a book that has never appeared more timely.

Unter den Briefwechseln Adornos ist der sich von 1927-1968 erstreckende mit Max Horkheimer nicht nur der umfänglichste, sondern auch der aufschlußreichste für Adornos Biographie und für die interne Arbeit wie die externen Wirkungen des Instituts für Sozialforschung. Die vollständige Edition dieses in weiten Teilen unveröffentlichten Briefwechsels, die auch hier erstmalig edierte Memoranden, Gutachten, Berichte und Briefe Adornos an Dritte einschließt, ist nicht weniger als eine Dokumentation der Geschichte der Kritischen Theorie und eines der zentralen Dokumente der...

These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their historical significance and even from their scholarly eminence, these essays contain an immediate relevance only now becoming fully recognized.

Max Horkheimer is well known as the director of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research and as a sometime collaborator with Theodor Adorno, especially on their classic Dialectic of Enlightenment. These essays reveal another side of Horkheimer, focusing on his remarkable contributions to critical theory in the 1930s.Included are Horkheimer's inaugural address as director of the Institute, in which he outlines the interdisciplinary research program that would dominate the initial phase of the Frankfurt School, his first full monograph, and a number of other pieces published in the 1930s....